Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

Researchers from Purdue University have confirmed the so-called Lafayette Meteorite encountered Water before it left Mars ...

Despite the team's success in dating the water-rock interaction, the researchers don't think Mars was teeming with water at ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

When did liquid water exist on Mars and what can it tell us about when, or if, life ever existed on the Red Planet? This is ...

The Lafayette Meteorite, a chunk of Mars, has provided crucial insights into the Red Planet's geological history.

Mars was hit by an asteroid 11 million years ago because of which pieces of the Red Planet had been disbursed into space.  A ...